Functions of the nonverbal in CMC: Emoticons and illocutionary force

Communication Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-268

  Dresner, Eli ^a   Herring, Susan ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; GRAPHICAL METHOD; LANGUAGE; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 77954847981     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: 14682885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2010.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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